The Poetics of Space
Winter 2005. Vol. 27 No.3
“The Poetics of Space: Where Poetry Lives.” Featuring a conversation with Sue Goyette about navigating the spaces between her family life and writing life, and coming undone with her latest collection. Also, get to know poets Chandra Mayor, Fiona Tinwei Lam, and Patrick Friesen.
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by Sue Goyette
One is voluptuous, a study of desire the way it is opened. The pale throat of it offered or forgotten,...
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by Chandra Mayor
I rimmed my eyes in black and wore plastic and metal around my neck. Sheri-D piled her hair on top...
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by Fiona Tinwei Lam
We brought you here already tired, my eighteen-month-old hunter-gatherer, soldiering through sand to forage for bits of treasure to bring...
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by Michael Aird
and you opening after to my opening also your mouth breaks in less words, more life forms a wave...
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by Julia McCarthy
And in the room of quartz blooms nothingness which is a cemetery of crows each bearing a bright...
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by Leo Brent Robillard
There is a song for the dead and the drowned the tune of which I can’t remember, so many seasons...
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by Shandi Mitchell
Crouched in the stairwell cloaked in shadows I watch my mother in the kitchen waltz Her faded housecoat cinched...
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by Sandra Pettman
the river drew me to her— sent her butterfly scouts to beckon me down fir and pine became...
